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Sculptural Evidence For Universal Facial Expressions

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This may fit into an existing thread, I'll leave it to the wisdom of the Mods. It's a thread we have to face up to.

Ancient sculptures hint at universal facial expressions across cultures

By Bruce Bower
17 HOURS AGO

Grimaces, scowls and doting gazes of ancient human sculptures indicate that there are universal facial expressions that signal the same emotions across cultures, researchers argue.

Faces depicted in sculptures crafted between 3,500 and 600 years ago in Mexico and Central America convey five varieties of emotion to Westerners today, say computational neuroscientist Alan Cowen and psychologist Dacher Keltner, both of the University of California, Berkeley. Present-day folks, and likely members of ancient American societies as well, anticipate that each of these emotional expressions occurs in particular social situations, the scientists report August 19 in Science Advances.

As participants in the new study predicted just by looking at the faces of sculpted individuals, pain expressions characterized sculptures of people being tortured, expressions combining determination and strain accompanied heavy lifting, angry faces occurred in combat, elated expressions appeared in people being held or embraced and sad faces typified individuals in defeat.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-sculptures-universal-human-facial-expressions-cultures
 
This may fit into an existing thread, I'll leave it to the wisdom of the Mods. It's a thread we have to face up to.

Ancient sculptures hint at universal facial expressions across cultures

By Bruce Bower
17 HOURS AGO

Grimaces, scowls and doting gazes of ancient human sculptures indicate that there are universal facial expressions that signal the same emotions across cultures, researchers argue.

Faces depicted in sculptures crafted between 3,500 and 600 years ago in Mexico and Central America convey five varieties of emotion to Westerners today, say computational neuroscientist Alan Cowen and psychologist Dacher Keltner, both of the University of California, Berkeley. Present-day folks, and likely members of ancient American societies as well, anticipate that each of these emotional expressions occurs in particular social situations, the scientists report August 19 in Science Advances.

As participants in the new study predicted just by looking at the faces of sculpted individuals, pain expressions characterized sculptures of people being tortured, expressions combining determination and strain accompanied heavy lifting, angry faces occurred in combat, elated expressions appeared in people being held or embraced and sad faces typified individuals in defeat.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-sculptures-universal-human-facial-expressions-cultures

money for old rope study.
 
I read the thread title as "Unused Facial Expressions" and for a moment was wondering what could be left.
 
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